Rev. Jerry Carter is a Republican running for State House in North Carolina’s District 65, and he made a rather bizarre claim during a recent meet-and-greet.

He wanted to explain how the Founding Fathers didn’t support separation of church and state. That’s not true, and we know that for a number of reasons. The First Amendment prohibits an establishment of religion. Thomas Jefferson talked about the “wall of separation” in a letter to the Danbury Baptists. And the word “religion” only appears twice in the Constitution, both times preceded by the word “no.”